Association between smoking and hair loss

[wookster]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entre ... t=Citation

Besides being the single most preventable cause of significant morbidity and an important cause of death in the general population, tobacco smoking has been associated with adverse effects on the skin. Smoke-induced premature skin ageing has attracted the attention of the medical community, while only recently an observational study has indicated a significant relationship between smoking and baldness. The mechanisms by which smoking causes hair loss are multifactorial and are probably related to effects of cigarette smoke on the microvasculature of the dermal hair papilla, smoke genotoxicants causing damage to DNA of the hair follicle, smoke-induced imbalance in the follicular protease/antiprotease systems controlling tissue remodeling during the hair growth cycle, pro-oxidant effects of smoking leading to the release of pro-inflammatory cytokines resulting in follicular micro-inflammation and fibrosis and finally increased hydroxylation of oestradiol as well as inhibition of the enzyme aromatase creating a relative hypo-oestrogenic state. In view of the psychological impact of androgenetic alopecia on affected men and women, increasing public awareness of the association between smoking and hair loss offers an opportunity for health education against smoking that may be more effective than the link between smoking and facial wrinkles or grey hair, since the latter can be effectively counteracted by current aesthetic dermatologic procedures, while treatment options for androgenetic alopecia are limited. Copyright 2003 S. Karger AG, Basel

 

[The Gardener]

What about chewing tobacco?

 

[Chemical J]

So Smoking reefer also causes this or not?

Just wondering I quit smoking 3 years ago.

 

[powersam]

after giving up smoking and building my diet around avoiding glucose and insulin spikes, i'm getting constant boners like we all do at 14. smoking hurts boners.

 

[flimflam]

i'm getting constant boners like we all do at 14. smoking hurts boners.

or; not smoking hinders growth.

 

[docj077]

Smoking street marijuana is one of the most harmful things that a human being can do to their body. The cancerous potential far excedes tobacco due to the overabundance of impurities when compared to even cigarettes.

 

[IBM]

streetcleaner.

 

[BornBaldDieBald]

Whatever effect tobacco/and or marijuana have on the hair is negligible at best. I know many SMOKERS, and many Marijuana users, and an overwhelming perentage of these people have PERFECT HAIR. There are too many counterexamples to seriously worry about the affect of smoke on our hair.

 

[Guest]

Whatever effect tobacco/and or marijuana have on the hair is negligible at best. I know many SMOKERS, and many Marijuana users, and an overwhelming perentage of these people have PERFECT HAIR. There are too many counterexamples to seriously worry about the affect of smoke on our hair.

Of course it doesn't affect the people who don't even have the balding gene in the 1st place.

 

[Lucky_UK]

I know a few NW7's who don't smoke

My friend smokes weed from dawn till dusk, he is vacant most times but he has a full head of hair!


Docj077 - you say street marijuana, what about home grown?

 

[powersam]

weed taken with a vaporizer would be basically cancer safe, still the danger of mental issues though.

 

[The Gardener]

I disagree... when I'm high, and I observe non-high people, it becomes abundantly clear to me that it is the non-weed users who are TRULY the ones with mental issues...

:lol: